CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4440, 10 June 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign, London, Juno 8. The, English hay crop is a failure, and the wheat and root crops are poor. The drought has been renewed in many parts of the South. JTlie JjijUH says all crops in KnH Wjfcpre'below last.year's, but in Scotland they are belter, Roue, June 7. The Duke of Aliruzzi is on board an Italian warship which will shortly visit Australia. - Melbourne, June 8, "Several assaults havo been committed on seamen who bave joined vessels at the reduced rate of wages, The ohief officer of the Tapliaferao was brutally assaulted by» band of 15 roughs. Paris, June 8. Eight deaths are reported from Cholera at Alais, and one from Nimes. Washington, June 8. A fiie is raging at Fargo, North Dakota, which has already done damage to the extent of 8,000,000 dollars and is still spreading. Two thousand people are homeless Sydney, June 8.

Sentence was passed to-day on the " long firm " swindlers, Carey, -Jamsn, and Stewart, received each 5 years, Gresham 4 years, Parker two years and ten months, and Ogle, two years. The remainder were acquitted.

'fhe men who were working in six western cdllwies have now struck, v x |,ytheowners amount to about 18 per cent,, while the men were willing to accept 10 per cent. A number of free men are being engaged to work the mine*.